The Garden of Failure

In The Garden of Failure, I present a roster of revolutions, wars, and resistance movements named after flowers—a poetic gesture that subverts the symbolic language of beauty and growth to explore the fragility of collective ideals.

Flowers bloom briefly, radiant yet fragile; so too do movements born from dreams of change: they rise in color, in fervor, in promise, only to wither under the weight of history. In this garden, beauty and loss coexist, with petals scattered across the soil of memory.

By collecting and listing uprisings named after flowers, I invite the viewer to question how we romanticize struggle, how we commemorate failure or victory, and how impermanence persists even in our most fervent attempts at transcendence. The garden becomes both a metaphor for hope and for its undoing: a space where movements bloom, and where the seeds of failure lie hidden.